NOTED OAKS NEAR BURTON 91 
Another celebrated tree was the Rocket Oak, on Tatenhill 
Common. This was struck by lightning and destroyed by a heavy 
gale in the early sixties, but the stump remained for many years 
afterwards 
Yok La 
OS PRS wiw.e rr. 
THE CUN-BARREL OAK, BACOT’S PARK, NEEDWOOD FOREST. 
Fair Oak, near Rugeley, was 28ft. 6in. in girth, but nothing 
now remains of it except the name, which is likely to be 
remembered for a long time in connection with that unfortunate 
undertaking, Fairoak Colliery Company. 
Almost all the oak trees around Burton belong to the sub- 
species Quercus pectunculata. The sub-species Quercus sessiflora 
is not at all common. I have found it growing in Hopwas Wood, 
near Tamworth, where there are a number of good-sized trees, and a 
few trees in South Street, between Oakedge and Woolsly Parks on 
Cannock Chase. 
* Notes on British Trees, read before the Society, January 18th, 1906. 
** Natural History of Tutbury, Sir Oswald Mosley and Edwin Brown, 1863. 
p. 282. 
*** Natural History of Staffordshire. R. Garner, 1844. 
